WO2011064003A1 - Système et procédé de traitement de récupération optimisé dans un système de bibliothèque de bandes virtuelles - Google Patents

Système et procédé de traitement de récupération optimisé dans un système de bibliothèque de bandes virtuelles Download PDF

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WO2011064003A1
WO2011064003A1 PCT/EP2010/062610 EP2010062610W WO2011064003A1 WO 2011064003 A1 WO2011064003 A1 WO 2011064003A1 EP 2010062610 W EP2010062610 W EP 2010062610W WO 2011064003 A1 WO2011064003 A1 WO 2011064003A1
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  • the present invention relates to the field of storage management of sequential media and more particular it relates to autonomous reclamation processing of virtualized sequential media such as virtual tapes in a virtual tape library.
  • Storage management applications such as IBM Tivoli Storage
  • Storage Management applications use sequential media such as virtual tape for cost efficient storage mainly for data which is accessed more often than data on physical tape.
  • Virtual tapes are typically emulated by a virtual tape library.
  • a virtual tape library according to prior art comprises a computing system executing a tape virtualization software. This tape virtualization software emulates virtual tape drives, virtual tape libraries and virtual tapes.
  • a virtual tape library is connected via an interface and a network - such as a Storage Area Network (SAN) or Local Area Network (LAN) - to the storage management application.
  • the storage management application Swiftsees" the virtual tape devices and virtual tapes just a real tape devices.
  • When the storage management application writes a virtual tape than this virtual tape is stored on a disk system also comprised in the virtual tape library.
  • Each virtual tape in a virtual tape library has a unique serial number which is also called VOLSER.
  • the VOLSER allows the unique identification of a virtual tape in a virtual tape library.
  • a virtual tape - just like a real tape - cannot be written in a random fashion but rather sequentially from the beginning to the end. Thus it is not possible to write data to any position on tape but only at the position and beyond where the last write operation has ended. When data on a tape needs to be overwritten then the tape must be written again starting from the beginning.
  • Figure 1 shows and example for active 102 and inactive data 104 on virtual tape 100.
  • Active data is the data which is still valid and might be used for restores. Inactive data has typically expired and is not valid any more. Thus inactive data is essentially represented by the entire tape capacity minus the active data. Inactive data is a waste of storage space in the disk system of the VTL because this data is not longer needed and could potentially be deleted.
  • a virtual tape according to prior art such as IBM TS1130 emulated in a Virtual Tape Library IBM TS7500 has a capacity of 1 TB . If such virtual tape has 50 % active data left then 500 GB of storage capacity is wasted - because its still allocated by the virtual tape library, but not referenced anymore by the application software.
  • a virtual tape can only be reused when all active data has expired or when all active data has been moved to another virtual tape. The virtual tape needs to be empty to be re-used for new backups from the beginning.
  • Moving the active data 102 to another virtual tape is also called reclamation.
  • Storage management applications implement the reclamation process.
  • the reclamation process monitors the amount of active data on each virtual tape which has been written full. Typically there is a threshold the user can set - also called the reclamation threshold - and if the amount of active data falls below that threshold the storage management software automatically copies the remaining active data from that source virtual tape to a target virtual tape which is in a empty or filling status at the moment of time.
  • the source tape is empty and can be re-used from the beginning of tape.
  • the reclamation process is executed by the storage management server which consumes additional computing resources on the storage management server.
  • the reclamation process requires two virtual devices: one to read the data from and one to write the data to.
  • the objective of the present invention is to provide an improved method and system for managing virtual tapes in a virtual tape library system.
  • inventional system comprises a storage management application managing virtual tapes in a virtual tape library system (VTL- system) which is capable to identify all block addresses of active data for a given source virtual tape; said storage management application is connected via a network to said virtual tape library system and is capable to send a command instructing said VTL-system to perform autonomous reclamation.
  • VTL- system virtual tape library system
  • the VTL-system is characterized by an inventional reclamation logic which uniquely maps each host block written by the storage management application to a block on the disk system of said VTL-system.
  • an inventional reclamation logic which uniquely maps each host block written by the storage management application to a block on the disk system of said VTL-system.
  • the storage management application determines that a source virtual tape requires reclamation
  • the storage management application identifies all block addresses for active data of a source virtual tape and sorts the block addresses in an ascending order
  • the storage management application identifies a target
  • the storage management sends a command to the VTL-system instructing it to perform reclamation including information about said source and said target virtual tape, the sorted list of block addresses denoting active data on the source virtual tape and the starting block address on the target virtual tape,
  • the storage management application updates the block mapping table by removing said active data blocks of the source volumes and adding said active data blocks to the target volume starting at the starting host block address.
  • the reclamation logic removes all host block addresses for the source virtual tape from the host block to disk block mapping table in order to free up space in the VTL-system. Because the storage space of source virtual tape has been reclaimed and the data previously stored on said source virtual tape is not longer needed.
  • the host block - to- disk block - mapping is done via a mapping table.
  • a disk block might be represented by a block on the disk system.
  • the inventional reclamation logic includes a further method which intercepts write commands and updates the host block to disk block mapping table in accordance to the write command.
  • the inventional reclamation logic further includes a method which intercepts read commands and determines the appropriate disk block based on said mapping table.
  • the present invention further provides a second aspect in which said reclamation logic in conjunction with the storage
  • management application comprises a further method which deletes inactive data for a given source virtual volume from the VTL disk system by the following steps:
  • the storage management application determines that a source virtual tape has a certain percentage of inactive data by comparing the relative amount of inactive data to a
  • the storage management application identifies all block addresses for inactive data of a source virtual tape
  • the storage management sends a command to the VTL-system instructing it to delete the inactive data blocks of the source virtual volume identified above
  • the inventional reclamation logic upon reception of the command the inventional reclamation logic deletes the inactive data blocks by removing these from the host block to disk block mapping table. This will free up the disk blocks which can now be used for new data.
  • Reclamation is not executed by the storage management server but by the VTL-system itself. This saves performance of the storage management application.
  • Reclamation processing can be performed at any time because it minimizes the impact to the storage management server and the network .
  • the present invention provides efficient space management in a virtual tape library by referencing active data blocks without moving any data and deleting inactive, expired data blocks.
  • Figure 1 illustrates an example for active and inactive data on a tape
  • Figure 2 illustrates the most basic structural components of an inventional hardware and software environment used for a preferred embodiment of the inventional method
  • Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 illustrate examples for table 304 with block mapping tables updating during the inventional reclamation processing
  • Figure 7 illustrates the control flow of the most important steps of a preferred embodiment of the inventional method
  • Figure 8A illustrates a MODE SELECT command according the SCSI T10 standard
  • Figure 8B illustrates a mode page 25h sent in accordance to the MODE SELECT command and used to instruct the VTL to perform reclamation according to a preferred embodiment of the
  • Figure 8C illustrates a mode page 26h sent in accordance to the MODE SELECT command and used to instruct the VTL to delete inactive data according to a preferred embodiment of the
  • an inventional embodiment of a tape management system 300 comprises a storage management application 204 running on a host computing system 202.
  • the Storage management system manages virtual tapes included in a virtual tape library
  • VTL virtual tape
  • the storage management system 204 For each virtual tape which has data written on it, the storage management system 204 maintains a table 208 which maps the object such as files (column 1) to host block addresses
  • the Storage management system 204 is connected to the virtual tape library system 310 via a network 220 which might be a storage area network (SAN) based on fibre channel or a local area network (LAN) based on Ethernet or the like.
  • the Virtual tape library system 310 includes a computing system 212 running the virtualization program and a disk system 214 which is used to store the data of virtual tapes.
  • the inventional virtual tape library system further includes inventional a reclamation logic 302 which manages the table 304.
  • the inventional reclamation logic uniquely maps the host blocks (column 2) of each virtual tape (column 3) denoted by a VOLSER to a disk block (column 1) of the disk system 214.
  • a disk block might be a block on the disk device comprised in the VTL-system, or it might be represented by a file system
  • a host block is a block written by the storage management application 204 to the virtual tape.
  • the disk block 0 (column 1) contains data of host block 0 (column 2) which pertains to virtual tape with VOLSER 123456 (column 3) .
  • disk block 1 (third row) contains data of host block 1 for virtual tape 123456.
  • Disk block 3 (fourth row) contains data of host block 3 for virtual tape 123456.
  • Row five denotes a continuation of the host-block to disk-block mapping for VOLSER 123456 or other volser until disk block 227.
  • Disk block 228 (sixth row) contains data of host block 0 pertaining to another virtual tape with the VOLSER 654321.
  • disk block 229 (seventh row) contains data of host block 1 for virtual tape 654321, and so on.
  • Figure 7 illustrates the control flow of the most important steps thereof.
  • the storage management application 204 determines the necessity that a reclamation procedure is
  • VOLSER virtual tape tape denoted by a VOLSER. This can be based on comparisons with a user defined reclamation threshold according to prior art.
  • the storage management application 204 identifies all host blocks for said source virtual which contain active data and sorts this list in a ascending order, step 730. It thereby uses table 208 which maps all objects (files) stored on said source virtual tape to the host blocks where the actual object related data is stored on said source virtual tape. Thus table 208 which is stored in the repository 206 of the storage management application includes all active data blocks for said source virtual tape.
  • the storage management application 204 identifies a target virtual tape denoted by a VOLSER and a starting block address where the active data is to be written to. The starting block address for said target virtual tape is derived from table 208 and is identical to the host block address where the last data has been written incremented by one.
  • step 760 the storage management application sends a
  • the reclamation command including this list of active data host blocks, the VOLSER of the source and target virtual tape and the starting host block address on the target virtual tape to the reclamation logic 302 of the virtual tape system 310 via network 220.
  • the reclamation command can be a MODE SELECT command followed by a customized mode page according to the prior art SCSI T10 standard. Said SCSI mode select command is explained later using figures 8A and 8B.
  • the reclamation logic 302 Responsive to the reception of this reclamation command the reclamation logic 302 performs reclamation in a step 770 by mapping the host blocks with active data of the source virtual tape to the host blocks of the target virtual tape starting at the starting host block address in table 304.
  • step 780 table 304 is updated according to the reclamation processing in procedure 770 and table 208 is updated according to the reclamation command whereby the active data host blocks of the source virtual tape are assigned to the target virtual tape .
  • This reclamation procedure 770 itself which is performed by the reclamation logic 302 comprises the steps of:
  • step 770 identifying it as a reclamation command based on the mode page 600 (figure 8B) , step 770.
  • the storage management application 204 Upon receiving the completion message the storage management application 204 updates table 208 by assigning all active data host block addresses (column 2 of table 208) included in the reclamation command sent in step 760 to the target virtual tape (column 3 of table 208) starting at the starting host block address and removing all active data host block addresses for the source virtual volume from table 208.
  • table 1 - the storage management application determines that the source virtual tape with VOLSER 123456 requires reclamation.
  • the active data host blocks are blocks 0 and 2.
  • the storage management application further identifies that target virtual tape 654321 has two blocks (0 and 1) indicating that block 2 as the starting
  • the storage management application sends the mode select command (500 in figure 8A) followed by a mode page 600 of figure 8B to the inventional VTL-System including the following mode page parameters :
  • step 780 all host block addresses for the source virtual tape 123456 are deleted from table 304 by the reclamation logic. The result of this operation is shown in table 3 of figure 5.
  • the second, third and fourth row of column 2 in table 3 are updated by removing the host blocks for VOLSER 123456 resulting in disk block 1 to become free and usable for new data.
  • the inventional VTL-System 310 implements a method where every time a virtual tape is written by the storage management
  • the table 304 is updated with the mapping of the written host blocks to the disk block where the data is stored.
  • the write command is not changed and thus corresponds to prior art, for example a SCSI write command.
  • the inventional VTL-system 310 and in particular the inventional reclamation logic 302 intercepts the respective write command, updates table 304 and then executes the write command.
  • a write command is always directed to a particular virtual tape.
  • the write command is executed at the position where the virtual tape has been positioned.
  • the inventional method comprises the following steps :
  • Steps 6 and 7 above ensure that when host blocks are overwritten they are eliminated from table 304. For example, when a virtual tape is written from the beginning (host block 0) then all previously written host blocks are void and will be deleted by steps 6 and 7.
  • the inventional VTL-System 310 implements a further method which processes read commands.
  • a read command is received - such as a SCSI read command according to prior art - the VTL-system determines the current position of the virtual tape subject for the read command, maps this current position to a starting host block, identifies the disk block which is mapped to said
  • starting host block using table 304 column 1 and 2 and reads the data from said starting disk block in sequential order according to the number of blocks requested by the read command.
  • this invention can be extended to delete inactive data pertaining to virtual tapes from the disk system of the virtual tape system. This helps to reduce the disk capacity being used by deleting the data which is not longer needed.
  • the process for inactive data processing is described next below:
  • the storage management application 204 identifies all host blocks for a given virtual tape denoted by a VOLSER which contain inactive data. It thereby uses table 208 which maps all objects (e.g. files) stored on a given virtual tape to the blocks where the data pertaining to the object is stored on tape. Table 208 which is stored in the repository 206 of the storage management application includes all active data blocks for said virtual tape. The determination of the inactive data blocks is essentially conducted by subtracting the set of active data host blocks from all data host blocks pertaining to a given virtual tape.
  • the storage management application 204 sends a command such as the SCSI mode select command 500 in figure 8A followed by a mode page 800 (figure 8C) including the volser of the source virtual tape (806 in figure 8C) and a list of said identified inactive data host blocks (808 - 812 in figure 8C) pertaining to a source virtual volume to the inventional VTL-System 310.
  • a command such as the SCSI mode select command 500 in figure 8A followed by a mode page 800 (figure 8C) including the volser of the source virtual tape (806 in figure 8C) and a list of said identified inactive data host blocks (808 - 812 in figure 8C) pertaining to a source virtual volume to the inventional VTL-System 310.
  • the reclamation logic 302 deletes the host blocks identified in this list of inactive data blocks from table 304 comprising the following steps : 1. receiving the mode select command 500 in figure 8A and mode page 800 (figure 8C) and identifying it as a command to delete inactive data blocks for a virtual tape based on the mode page code .
  • the storage management application identifies this based on table 208 and sends a mode select command 500 (figure 8A) followed by mode page 800 (figure 8C) to the VTL system 310 including the VOLSER of tape 654321 and the list of inactive data blocks 1 and 3. Responsive to this the inventional reclamation logic removes these blocks from table 304 as illustrated in table 4 in figure 6.
  • the fourth row is updated by removing the host block 3 (column 2) and VOLSER 654321 (column 3) .
  • the seventh row is updated by removing host block 1 (column 2) and VOLSER 654321 (column 3) .
  • disk blocks 2 and 229 are being freed up and can be used for new data.
  • the SCSI mode select command can be used by the storage
  • the SCSI Mode Select command (500), is basically known from prior art.
  • the mode select command allows the storage management application 204 sending a mode page to the virtual tape library 310.
  • This command has a command code 502 of 15h, where the suffix h denotes hexadecimal or base 16.
  • This command code instructs the virtual tape library that this is a mode select command.
  • the parameter list length 504 specifies the size of the mode page 600 or 800 to be transferred in bytes. Subsequently to sending this command the storage management application will send the actual mode page 600 or 800.
  • the mode select command 500 is followed by a mode parameter header (prior art, not shown) , a block descriptor (prior art, not shown) and one or more mode pages such as mode page 600 of figure 8B or 800 of figure 8C.
  • Mode page 600 of figure 8B is used by the storage management application to instruct the VTL system to perform reclamation.
  • Mode page 600 has a page code (602) of 25h, where the suffix h denotes hexadecimal or base 16.
  • the field parameter page length (604) specifies the length of the mode page in bytes.
  • the length of the mode page is (22 + 2*N) bytes where N denotes the number of active data block addresses identified in step 720 of figure 7.
  • Field 606 specifies the source virtual denoted by a VOLSER being reclaimed which is determined in step 710 of figure 7.
  • Field 608 specifies the target virtual tape denoted by a VOLSER which is determined in step 740 of figure 7.
  • Field 610 includes the starting host block address for the target virtual tape determined in step 740 of figure 7.
  • Fields 612, 614 and 618 include active data host block addresses 1, 2 and N of the source virtual tape which have been identified in step 720 of figure 7.
  • N is the number of the last host block address determined in step 720.
  • Mode page 800 of figure 8C is used by the storage management application to instruct the VTL system to delete inactive data.
  • Mode page 800 has a page code (802) of 26h, where the suffix h denotes hexadecimal or base 16.
  • the field parameter page length (804) specifies the length of the mode page in bytes.
  • the length of the mode page is (10 + 2*N) bytes where N denotes the number of inactive data block addresses identified in step 720 of figure 7.
  • Field 806 specifies the source virtual tape denoted by a VOLSER for which the inactive data blocks are to be deleted.
  • Fields 808, 810 and 812 include inactive data host block
  • the reclamation logic 302 Upon reception of the mode select command 500 followed by mode page 26h (800) the reclamation logic 302 removes all inactive data block addresses (fields 808, 810 and 812 of mode page 26h in figure 8) from table 304 (column 2) according to source volume (field 806) (column 3 of table 304) .
  • the invention can take the form of an entirely hardware
  • the invention is implemented in software, which includes but is not limited to firmware, resident software, microcode, etc.
  • the invention can take the form of a computer program product accessible from a computer-usable or computer- readable medium providing program code for use by or in
  • a computer-usable or computer readable medium can be any apparatus that can contain, store, communicate, propagate, or transport the program for use by or in connection with the instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.
  • the medium can be an electronic, magnetic, optical,
  • Examples of a computer- readable medium include a semiconductor or solid state memory, magnetic tape, a removable computer diskette, a random access memory (RAM) , a read-only memory (ROM) , a rigid magnetic disk and an optical disk.
  • Current examples of optical disks include compact disk - read only memory (CD-ROM) , compact disk - read/write (CD-R/W) and DVD.
  • a data processing system suitable for storing and/or executing program code will include at least one processor coupled
  • the memory elements can include local memory employed during actual execution of the program code, bulk storage, and cache memories which provide temporary storage of at least some program code in order to reduce the number of times code must be retrieved from bulk storage during execution.
  • I/O devices including but not limited to keyboards, displays, pointing devices, etc.
  • I/O devices can be coupled to the system either directly or through intervening I/O
  • Network adapters may also be coupled to the system to enable the data processing system to become coupled to other data
  • Modems, cable modem and Ethernet cards are just a few of the currently available types of network adapters.

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La présente invention concerne le domaine de la gestion de stockage de supports séquentiels et porte en particulier sur un traitement de récupération autonome de supports séquentiels virtualisés tel que des bandes virtuelles dans une bibliothèque de bandes virtuelles. Pour obtenir un procédé et système améliorés de gestion de bandes virtuelles dans un système de bibliothèque de bandes virtuelles, le système de l'invention comprend une application de gestion de stockage gérant des bandes virtuelles dans un système de bibliothèque de bandes virtuelles (système VTL) qui est capable d'identifier toutes les adresses de bloc de données actives pour une bande virtuelle source donnée ; ladite application de gestion de stockage est connectée par un réseau audit système de bibliothèque de bandes virtuelles et est capable d'envoyer une instruction ordonnant audit système VTL de réaliser une récupération autonome. Le système VTL est caractérisé par une logique de récupération selon l'invention qui fait correspondre de façon unique chaque bloc hôte écrit par l'application de gestion de stockage à un bloc sur le système de disque dudit système VTL. Conjointement avec l'application de gestion de stockage, il met en œuvre un procédé pour réaliser en œuvre une récupération autonome.
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